Documentary photographer Robert Ashton is showing his 1974 series of images recording life in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Fitzroy at the Colour Factory Gallery.
Photographers Rebekah Stuart and Robert Ashton are both exhibiting their work at the Colour Factory Gallery in Melbourne.
An exhibition of imaginary landscapes by photo artist Rebekah Stuart is finishing soon at the Colour Factory in Melbourne, whilst a collection of documentary images by Robert Ashton will begin there in early September.
The Stuart exhibition, titled ‘Pictures of Elision’ is a series of haunting landscapes made up from elements of different images. Stuart reconstructs fragments of nature to create landscapes that do not actually exist. Stuart says her images evolve in a similar fashion to that of a painter, over a long duration. Her exhibition will finish on August 30.
Stuart is a Melbourne-based artist who uses photographic media to recreate visual narratives. She has worked and exhibited as an artist in both Melbourne and the UK, participating in group and solo exhibitions. Her work explores how fragments of the landscape can be reconstructed to create pathways to new imagined lands.
The low-lit mood that moves through the images is a motif for the time of day when the light is still strong enough for forms to be seen as they begin to disappear into the abstraction of the darkness. Stuart says she’s interested in devising an alternative aesthetic to the Romantic and traditional landscape, where the position of the viewer observing perspective and scale in the frame is usually clearly defined.
Robert Ashton will exhibit his series ‘Into the Hollow Mountains – A Portrait of Fitzroy in 1974’ which is made up of black and white images shot in 1974 in which he documented the Melbourne suburb, before the inner-city area was altered by urban renewal and changing demographics. Ashton has been shooting and exhibiting his work since the early 1970s and his images are held in the Australian National Gallery, as well as the Victorian, New South Wales and Tasmanian Galleries, and various private collections in Australia, the US, and Europe. He has largely worked in black and white, though more recently in colour, using the camera to record the cultural marks people make in their environment.
'Into the Hollow Mountains' will be on show at the Colour Factory Gallery, 409-429 Gore St, Fitzroy, Melbourne, from September 4 to 27. For more information on both these exhibitions ph: (03) 9419-8756 or visit www.colourfactory.com/gallery
Documentary photographer Robert Ashton is showing his 1974 series of images recording life in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Fitzroy at the Colour Factory Gallery.
